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From: LadyHawke@cup.portal.com (Classic - Concepts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Word processors?
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Date: 17 Nov 89 07:12:36 GMT
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    This might be disappointing news, but the long list of features you
describe is often hard to find in a single package.  What a lot of people
do is to find a good word processor or text processor for putting in the
words and doing the spelling checking, etc. (those which handle this well
rarely are WYSIWYG) and then importing the text to a WYSIWYG editor or
desktop publishing program.  WYSIWYG with multiple fonts generally slows
down things (that's why you can out-type a lot of them).  It's unfortunate
to have to have two pieces of software to do what you want, but ...
    Your printer problems might stem from excellence! and the way it
interacts with the printer driver, or ... are you using 1.2 Workbench?
The interaction of drivers/devices and printers was GREATLY improved from
version 1.2 to version 1.3.  I've noticed a great improvement in most of
my applications.  If you have upgraded to 1.3, then I suspect excellence! 
may be the culprit.  When you lose the top of the ==, it's because some
pixels (a row every once in a while) are being 'compressed' to fit the
page.  Some lines are stretched by being doubled, some will be removed.
    I'm assuming you have selected the appropriate printer driver in
Preferences.  If you find a solution, you might consider posting it; there
are probably others looking for similar features.  Try checking out some
of the programs in buyers' guides, not all the good ones run big ads, I
notice, but they show up in buyers' guides.
                                                  Julie (LadyHawke)